Feeling Hopeless...did I just ruin my life?
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Take a nap dude
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Pre-allo is more dramatic than normal lately. Never would have guessed.
I think most people here would recommend doing a second degree in the sciences (4 years) and then a 2 year master's degree program to show med schools you have what it takes to succeed
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You will be fine. Worse than your grades showing a perceived inadequacy in science, this thread of your's demonstrates a lack of understanding and maturity. As if your life is the same as your grades or a spot in a school you believe to be prestigious. 🙄
There is no such thing as 'prereq sGPA', just sGPA and cGPA. You have plenty of time to raise your grades and improve your GPA's. If you do well on the MCAT and in upper level science, then any doubt regarding your background science (prereq) will be eliminated. For now just worry about doing well. Do not think about post-bacs, do not think about specific med schools ('top' schools, etc.).
Nothing brings out the neuroticism more than a few days before a bunch of cumulative exams and the sense that everything is crashing down right in front of your eyes. #finalsweek
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@Oso
I don't want to be offensive, but all y'all bears look alike to me.
I don't want to be offensive, but all y'all bears look alike to me.
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Meh, IDK. Thoroughly derailed, sir.
I can freakin' do anything man! I'm invincible!
Is there such a dichotomy between common sense/general intelligence and scientific intelligence?
To OP - why do you want to go to a top medical school? Do you have any research experience? Do you really know you want to be a doctor or is your family pushing you? If you do know you want to be a doctor - how do you know? How have you tested it? Shadowing doesn't count.
To OP - why do you want to go to a top medical school? Do you have any research experience? Do you really know you want to be a doctor or is your family pushing you? If you do know you want to be a doctor - how do you know? How have you tested it? Shadowing doesn't count.
You can basically kiss your chances at "top medical schools" goodbye at this point, unless you get a 45 on the MCAT or cure cancer. However, you're still in a good position to get yourself accepted somewhere assuming you can bring your stats up and have good ECs.
You're comparing not getting into a top medical school with ruining your life...
Get it together OP
Get it together OP
Op, most people are thrilled to get into any medical school. If not getting into a top tier medical school is that devastating to you, then you probably have some serious self esteem issues that you're trying to patch over with your accomplishments. Chill the eff out. When you are working in the hospital, basically no one ever will ask where you went to med school. If you think your chances at some super competitive specialty are shot because of where your MD came from, that is also generally wrong. You need to just work on getting to the point where you can apply for the time being, and fixing whatever underlying self esteem and confidence issues would lead you to believe your life would be ruined were you to attend a lowly non top 20 med school.
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